Dave, Spectrum Scale does not support de-duplication, it does support compression. You can however use block storage that supports over subscription / thin provisioning / deduplication for data only NSD’s, we do not recommend them for metadata.
In your scenario is user B planning on making changes to the data which is why you need a copy? I know of customers that do this regularly with block storage such as the IBM Flashsystem product family In conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management. But I don’t believe CDM supports file based storage. Regards, Andrew Beattie Technical Sales Specialist Storage for Data and AI IBM Australia and New Zealand P. +61 421 337 927 E. abeat...@au1.ibm.com > On 20 May 2021, at 22:58, Dave Bond <davebond7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This Message Is From an External Sender > This message came from outside your organization. > > > Hello > > As part of a project I am doing I am looking if there are any de duplication > options for GPFS? I see there is no native de dupe for the filesystem. The > scenario would be user A creates a file or folder and user B takes a copy > within the same filesystem, though separate independent filesets. The > intention would be to store 1 copy. So I was wondering .... > > 1) Is this is planned to be implemented into GPFS in the future? > 2) Is anyone is using any other solutions that have good GPFS integration? > > Dave
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